World Food Books

Design and Art of Modern Chairs

1978, English / Japanese
Softcover, 160 pages, 26 x 12 cm
Out of print title / used / fine
Published by The National Museum of Art / Osaka

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Incredibly rare Japanese publication from 1978, printed on the occasion of a major exhibition entitled "Design and Art of Modern Chairs", August 19—October 15, at the National Museum of Art, Osaka. This wonderful landscape-formatted book is profusely illustrated throughout (in colour and black and white) with the chairs of designers and artists including Gerrit Rietveld, Isamu Kenmochi, Olivier Mourgue, Pierre Paulin, Sadamasa Motonaga, Mario Ceroli, Marcel Breuer, Studio 65, Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand, Jan Dranger, Johan Huldt, Robert Haussman, Kwok Hoi Chan, Steen Østergaard, George Nakashima, Mies van der Rohe, Poul Kjaerholm, Eero Saarinen, Harry Bertoia, Charles Pollock, Aarne Jacobsen, Warren Platner, Roger Tallon, Verner Panton, Earo Aarnio, Bruno Mathsson, Motomi Kawakami, Marco Zanuso, Richard Sapper, Gerd Lange, Vico Magistretti, Alver Aalto, Jonathan de Pas, Paolo Lomazzi, Donato d'Urbino, Giorgio Decursu, Sori Yanagi, Reiko Tanabe-Murai, Wolfgang Mueller-Deisig, Stacy Dukes, Ettore Sottsass, Charles Eames, Hans J. Wegner, Franco Albini, Gio Ponti, Kaare Klint, Enzo Mari, Takeshi Nii, Achille Castiglioni, Achille and Piergiacomo Castiglioni, Tadashi Minohara, Gaetano Pesce, Yrjo Kukkapuro, Afra and Tobia Scarpa, Mario Bellini, Cini Boeri, Mario Marenco, Joe Colombo, Piero Gatti, Jonathan de Pas, Paolo Lomazzi, Donato d'Urbino, Ubald Klug, Gerrit Rietveld, Salvador Dali, Poltronova, Cassina, Taro Okamoto. Jiro Takamatsu, Susumu Koshimizu, Shiro Kuramata, Minoru Takeyama, Lucas Samaras, Kozo Mio, Arata Isozaki, Shigeo Fukuda, Takashi Sakaizawa, Constantin Brâncuși, Yoji Kuri, Yayoi Kusama, Vitra, Knoll, Kartell, Herman Miller, Arflex, BBB, Flexform, C&B Italia, Cassina, and many more. Each chair included is detailed with a blurb in Japanese, data/specs of year, designer/artist, manufacture and dimensions. Also includes an illustrated timeline tracing a chronological history of the chairs exhibited, along with a production index and forward texts in English and Japanese. Forms an indispensable index of important modern chair designs from the early 1930s—late 1970s.

Near Fine copy.

File under: Achille Castiglioni Afra and Tobia Scarpa Arata Isozaki Arflex Bruno Mathsson Cassina Charles Eames Charles Pollock Charlotte Perriand Cini Boeri Constantin Brâncuși Donato d'Urbino Eero Saarinen Enzo Mari Ettore Sottsass Franco Albini Gaetano Pesce George Nakashima Gerd Lange Gerrit Rietveld Gio Ponti Giorgio Decursu Hans J. Wegner Harry Bertoia Herman Miller Isamu Kenmochi Jan Dranger Joe Colombo Johan Huldt Jonathan de Pas Kaare Klint Kartell Knoll Kozo Mio Kwok Hoi Chan Le Corbusier Lucas Samaras Marcel Breuer Marco Zanuso Mario Bellini Mario Ceroli Mario Marenco Mies van der Rohe Minoru Takeyama Motomi Kawakami Olivier Mourgue Paolo Lomazzi Piero Gatti Pierre Jeanneret Pierre Paulin Poltronova Reiko Tanabe-Murai Richard Sapper Robert Haussman Roger Tallon Sadamasa Motonaga Salvador Dalí Shigeo Fukuda Shiro Kuramata Sori Yanagi Stacy Dukes Steen Østergaard Studio 65 Susumu Koshimizu Tadashi Minohara Takashi Sakaizawa Takeshi Nii Ubald Klug Verner Panton Vico Magistretti Vitra Warren Platner Wolfgang Mueller-Deisig Yayoi Kusama Yoji Kuri Yrjo Kukkapuro Alvar Aalto Eero Aarnio Arne Jacobsen Tarō Okamoto Jiro Takamatsu Poul Kjærholm Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni The National Museum of Art / Osaka Architecture / Interior Art Furniture Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Out-of-print / Rare Pop Art Surrealism Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation

Tetsumi Kudo
cages, peintures à l'ordinateur / cages, multiples

1977, French
Softcover (staple-bound), 24 pages, 29.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good

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Wonderful, very scarcely seen Tetsumi Kudo catalogue published on the occasion of parallel solo exhibitions held in early 1977 at Galerie Beaubourg ("cages, peintures à l'ordinateur") and Galerie Vallois ("cages, multiples") in Paris. Illustrated throughout in b/w, this catalogue gives a rare insight into the work of Kudo through various discussions and correspondence with Kudo, texts by Kudo, an interview with ... himself, all accompanied by the essay "The Resistance of Kudo and The Resistance to Kudo" by French art critic Alain Jouffroy. Texts in French.

"By his work, Kudo is part of the most clandestine current of the avant-garde of the XXth century, that which starts from Les Machines Célibataires of Marcel Duchamp and the Tableaux écaniques
of Picabia, ie. to a system of pistons and cogs, which today leads to Jean Tinguely and his anti-functional machines."
(badly translated from Alain Jouffroy's French.

Born in Osaka, Japan, in 1935 Kudo first gained notoriety in the Tokyo art scene of the late 50s. He began exhibiting his work at the Salon of Independents, Yomiuri and had his first solo exhibition at the Galerie Blanche, Tokyo. He was awarded the Grand Prize and a travel grant to Paris through his painting participation in the 1962 Second International Young Artists Exhibition in Tokyo. Immigrating to Paris, he immediately started working in a range of media--objects, sculpture, installation, drawing and painting--and presenting numerous Happenings and performances. His first exhibition there was banned. Kudo's work and activities intersected with many important postwar artistic trends--including French Nouveau Realisme, Fluxus, Pop art, 60s anti-art tendencies and 80s Postmodernism. Throughout his life and career, Kudo remained particularly Japanese while his art and vision were consistently and uniquely transcultural, internationalist and cosmopolitan. His work made international appearances at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1972), Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany, (1970), Venice Biennial (1976), and the Biennial São Paulo (1977, awarded a special mention) while also appearing frequently in museums and galleries throughout Japan and France, with a growing recognition in the Netherlands.

Very Good copy.

File under: Tetsumi Kudo Alain Jouffroy Art Sculpture / Installation Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Pop Art Fluxus Out-of-print / Rare

Parkett Vol. 19 (1989)
Martin Kippenberger / Jeff Koons issue

1989, English / German
Softcover, 200 pages, 25.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Parkett / Zürich

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1989 issue of Parkett (Vol. 19), deluxe issue created in collaboration with artists Martin Kippenberger and Jeff Koons, lavishly illustrated with both artist's works alongside texts by with texts by Klaus Kertess, Burke & Hare, Jean-Christophe Ammann, Glenn O’Brien, Diedrich Diederichsen, Patrick Frey, Martin Prinzhorn, Bice Curiger. Anselm Stalder designed the insert. Also in this issue: exclusive Gerhard Richter interview, Annemarie Hürlimann “In Between,” Hanna Humeltenberg “The Magic of Reality,” on Thomas Ruff, Felix Philipp Ingold “The Speaking Image in Rémy Zaugg’s work.” Iwona Blazwick and Robert Gober are the authors of the Cumulus from Europe and America, in the Balkon Parkett celebrates its fifth anniversary.

Founded in the early 1980s in Zurich, with an office also in New York City, , Parkett was international art magazine that aimed to foster an open dialogue between the artistic communities of Europe and America, with the goal to actively and directly collaborate with important international artists whose oeuvre was explored in several essays by leading writers and critics in both German and English. By 2017, Parkett had published 100 volumes with some 180 monographs and over 1500 in-depth texts making it one of the most comprehensive libraries on contemporary art worldwide. Critics, curators, art historians, and other commentators join in the conversation contained within its pages. Many write on the collaborating artists; some write opinions under a variety of topic headings that recur issue to issue; others write on additional artists and ideas. The result is more of a curated event-between-covers than a typical art magazine with reviews and news items.

Average—Good copy with some marking and wear.

File under: Martin Kippenberger Jeff Koons Robert Gober Rémy Zaugg Gerhard Richter Thomas Ruff Klaus Kertess Glenn O'Brien Jean-Christophe Ammann Bice Curiger Diedrich Diederichsen Patrick Frey Martin Prinzhorn Anselm Stalder Felix Philipp Ingold Iwona Blazwick Parkett / Zürich Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Pop Art Conceptual Art Photography

Exit Interview: Benjamin Buchloh in conversation with Hal Foster
By Benjamin H. D. Buchloh and Hal Foster

2024, English
Hardcover, 180 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 cm
Published by No Place Press / US

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Two of the most important voices in art history discuss their intellectual foundations, the changing role of criticism, and the possibilities for artistic practice today.

In Exit Interview, the prominent art critics and historians Hal Foster and Benjamin Buchloh discuss their intellectual foundations and the projects they've worked on together, from October magazine to Art Since 1900. Through three engaging conversations, Foster engages Buchloh on his early influences and aspirations, his formative years in Berlin, London, and Dusseldorf, and his career in North America, while exploring the impact of other art historians and critics. Buchloh candidly addresses his successes, critical significance, and unexplored avenues in art history, providing a unique window into his motivations and experiences. With a powerful postface by Buchloh, Exit Interview builds from biography and anecdote to important reflection on one's critical life as a whole.

File under: Hans Haacke Andy Warhol Polke Gerhard Richter Louise Lawler Marcel Broodthaers Jack Smith Blinky Palermo Daniel Buren Michael Asher Thomas Hirschhorn Gabriel Orozco Anselm Kiefer Yvonne Rainer Isa Genzken Jenny Holzer Dan Graham Martha Rosler Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Hal Foster No Place Press / US Theory / Essay Art Sociology / Politics Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Conceptual Art Pop Art

Modern Art in the Common Culture
by Thomas Crow

1996, English
Softcover, 274 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Yale University Press / New Haven

$25.00 - Out of stock

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First 1996 edition, second print. In this illuminating book, a prominent art historian explores the links between avant-garde art and modern mass culture, showing that the connections between the two have always been strong, and even necessary to both. The author recounts vivid episodes involving Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Christopher Williams, and many others, arriving at fresh and original insights into modern art and its place in late twentieth-century culture.

Thomas E. Crow is an American art historian and art critic who is best known for his influential writing on the role of art in modern society and culture. Since 2007, Crow has served as the Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU.

Very Good copy, light wear.

File under: Thomas Crow Yale University Press / New Haven Theory / Essay Art Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Painting Conceptual Art Photography Performance / Dance / Theater Pop Art

Öyvind Fahlström
Another Space for Painting

2001, English
Softcover, 368 pages, 27 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by MACBA / Barcelona

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The most comprehensive, long out-of-print, English-language publication on the Brazilian-born Swedish artist Öyvind Fahlström (1928-1976) known for his esoteric approach to exploring semiotics through visual systems. Published by Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona in 2001 on the occasion of the largest retrospective of Fahlström's work, this heavy catalogue is profusely illustrated throughout with 400 illustrations in colour and b/w. Include texts by Manuel J. Borja-Villel, Jean-François Chevrier, Immanuel Wallerstein, Octavi Rofes, Suely Rolnik, plus biography; exhibition history; bibliography.

Often employing mysterious symbols and text, popular culture, comic books, politics, and cartography, Fahlström created works meant to suggest epic narratives, seeking to “create a world of situations and actions in a contradictory and discontinuing time-space.” As a young man he began writing for Swedish publications, and produced poetry, plays, translations, and art. In 1961, the artist moved to New York, which was his primary place of residence for the rest of his life. Living in the same building as Jasper Johns, Fahlström’s artistic production increased with his associating with American avant-garde artists, participating in Happenings, becoming associated with the Fluxus movement, exhibiting his work at the 1964 and 1966 Venice Biennales, and continuing to write plays. He was featured in the celebrated 1962 New Realists exhibition at Sidney Janis Gallery and had numerous solo exhibitions with Janis throughout his life. Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others.

Good copy.
Spine tanning some bumping to corners.

File under: Öyvind Fahlström Manuel J. Borja-Villel Jean-François Chevrier Immanuel Wallerstein Octavi Rofes Suely Rolnik MACBA / Barcelona Fluxus Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Pop Art SALE

Documenta 5
by Harald Szeemann

1972, German / English / French
Vinyl ring-binder (screen printed w. design by E. Ruscha), 650 pages +, 32 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by documenta / Kassel

$500.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce copy of the only edition of the most elaborately designed, and lowest circulated Documenta catalogue, conceived by curator Harald Szeemann to accompany the fifth edition of Documenta, a quinquennial contemporary art exhibition held in Kassel, Germany.

Subtitled "100 Days of Inquiry into Reality -- Today's Imagery," curated by the team of Harald Szeemann, Jean-Christophe Ammann and Arnold Bode, Documenta 5 followed a lineage of comprehensive shows documenting conceptually and minimally charged artworks curated by Szeemann including Live in Your Head (Kunsthalle Bern, 1969), and Happenings and Fluxus (Kunstverein, Köln), 1970. The largest, most expensive and most diverse of any exhibition anywhere, Documenta 5 was criticized in 1972 as being “bizarre…vulgar…sadistic” by art critic and essayist Hilton Kramer and “monstrous… overtly deranged” by art historian and art critic Barbara Rose, yet it still resonates today as one of the most important exhibitions in history. Featuring the works of over 170 artists and an equally expansive variety of materials and subjects drawn from popular cultural materials, architecture, science fiction, kitsch objects, film, advertising, children's art, etc. in addition to the more anticipated international survey of new painting and sculpture - Documenta 5 valiantly attempted to bridge the gap between art, culture, science and the broader society. This massive tome is housed in the iconic orange vinyl-covered, two-ring binder screen printed with the famous ant design by Edward Ruscha. The binder holds a tabbed index of illustrated artist's pages and associated texts and material, largely in German, but also many in English. All registers are present apart from the usual missing 19-25 which were not directly integrated into the catalogue and had to be ordered by the visitor separately to become their own contribution. This very complete copy also includes the additional 80 page, hole-punched Documenta 5 guide book, with floor plans, complete listing of exhibited artworks, list of exhibitions, bibliography, and many gallery, museum and other related advertisements. More than a catalogue, this publication is a piece of art history in itself.

Includes artists: Vito Acconci, Vincenzo Agnetti, Peter Alexander, John de Andrea, Giovanni Anselmo, Arbeitszeit, Archigram, Chuck Arnoldi, Art & Language, Richard Artschwager, Michael Ashkin, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Georg Baselitz, Lothar Baumgarten, Robert Bechtle, Gottfried Bechtold, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Karl Oskar Blase, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Christian Boltanski, Claudio Bravo, George Brecht, K.P. Brehmer, Marcel Broodthaers, Stanley Brouwn, Günter Brus, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Michael Buthe, James Lee Byars, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Castelli, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Chuck Close, Tony Conrad, Ron Cooper, Bill Copley, Joseph Cornell, Robert Cottingham, Paul Cotton, Hanne Darboven, Walter De Maria, David Deutsch, Jan Dibbets, Herbert Distel, Gino de Dominicis, Marcel Duchamp, John Dugger, Don Eddy, Franz Eggenschwiler, Ger van Elk, Richard Estes, Luciano Fabro, John C. Fernie, Robert Filliou, Jud Fine, Joel Fisher, Terry Fox, Howard Fried, Hamish Fulton, Franz Gertsch, Gilbert & George, Ralph Goings, Hubert Gojowczyk, Dan Graham, Walter Grasskamp, Nancy Graves, Hans Haacke, Duane Hanson, Guy Harloff, Michael Harvey, Haus-Rucker-Co, Auguste Herbin, Eva Hesse, Rebecca Horn, Jean Olivier Hucleux, Douglas Huebler, Jörg Immendorff, Will Insley, Rolf Iseli, Ken Jacobs, Neil Jenney, Alfred Jensen, Jasper Johns, Joan Jonas, Max G. Kaminski, Howard Kanovitz, Edward Kienholz, Imi Knoebel, Christof Kohlhofer, Jannis Kounellis, Tom Kovachevich, Piotr Kowalski, David Lamelas, Barry Le Va, Jean LeGac, Alfred Leslie, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Ingeborg Luscher, Inge Mahn, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Etienne Martin, Richard McLean, David Medalla, Fernando Melani, Jim Melchert, Mario Merz, Gustav Metzger, Bernd Minnich, Malcolm Morley, Ed Moses, Bruce Nauman, Hermann Nitsch, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Blinky Palermo, Panamarenko, Giulio Paolini, A.R. Penck, Giuseppe Penone, Vettor Pisani, Sigmar Polke, Stephen Posen, Markus Raetz, Arnulf Rainer, Gerhard Richter, Klaus Rinke, Dorothea Rockburne, Peter Roehr, Allen Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Ulrich Ruckriem, Robert Ryman, John Salt, Salvo, Lucas Samaras, Paul Sarkisian, Jean-Frederic Schnyder, Ben Schonzeit, Werner Schroeter, HA Schult, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Fritz Schwegler, Richard Serra, Paul Sharits, Allan Shields, Katharina Sieverding, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Klaus Staeck, Paul Staiger, Jorge Stever, Robert Strubin, Paul Thek, Wayne Thiebaud, Andre Thomkins, David Tremlett, Richard Tuttle, Ben Vautier, W + B Hein, Franz Erhard Walther, Robert Watts, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, John Wesley, H.C. Westermann, William Wiley, Rolf Winnewisser, Tom Wudl, Klaus Wyborny, La Monte Young, Peter Young, Gilberto Zorio.

Catalogue also includes Bob Projansky and Seth Siegelaub's "The Artist's Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement." This "Agreement form has been drafted by Bob Projansky, a New York lawyer, after my [Siegelaub] extensive discussions and correspondence with over 500 artists, dealers, lawyers, collectors, museum people, critics and other concerned people involved in the day-to-day workings of the international art world. The Agreement has been designed to remedy some generally acknowledged inequities in the art world, particularly artists' lack of control over the use of their work and participation in its economics after they no longer own it. The Agreement for has been written with special awareness of the current ordinary practices and economic realitites of the art world, particularly its private, cash and informal nature, with careful regard for the interests and motives of all concerned. It is expected to be the standard form for the transfer and sale of all contemporary art, and has been made as fair, simple and useful as possible. It can be used either as presented here or slightly altered to fit your specific situation. If the following information does not answer all your questions consult your attorney." -- from Agreement's cover. Copies of the contract are individually included in English, Germany, and French editions.

Very Good, complete (as issued) copy. Very minor wear.

File under: Vito Acconci Vincenzo Agnetti Peter Alexander John de Andrea Giovanni Anselmo Arbeitszeit Archigram Chuck Arnoldi Art & Language Richard Artschwager Michael Ashkin John Baldessari Robert Barry Georg Baselitz Lothar Baumgarten Robert Bechtle Gottfried Bechtold Joseph Beuys Karl Oskar Blase Mel Bochner Alighiero Boetti Christian Boltanski Claudio Bravo George Brecht Marcel Broodthaers Stanley Brouwn Günter Brus Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Michael Buthe James Lee Byars Pier Paolo Calzolari Luciano Castelli Chuck Close Tony Conrad Ron Cooper Bill Copley Joseph Cornell Robert Cottingham Paul Cotton Hanne Darboven Walter De Maria David Deutsch Jan Dibbets Herbert Distel Gino de Dominicis Marcel Duchamp John Dugger Don Eddy Franz Eggenschwiler Ger van Elk Richard Estes Luciano Fabro John C. Fernie Robert Filliou Jud Fine Joel Fisher Terry Fox Howard Fried Hamish Fulton Franz Gertsch Gilbert & George Ralph Goings Hubert Gojowczyk Dan Graham Walter Grasskamp Nancy Graves Hans Haacke Duane Hanson Guy Harloff Michael Harvey Haus-Rucker-Co Auguste Herbin Eva Hesse Rebecca Horn Jean Olivier Hucleux Douglas Huebler Jörg Immendorff Will Insley Rolf Iseli Ken Jacobs Neil Jenney Alfred Jensen Jasper Johns Joan Jonas Max G. Kaminski Howard Kanovitz Edward Kienholz Imi Knoebel Christof Kohlhofer Jannis Kounellis H.C. Westermann William Wiley Rolf Winnewisser Tom Wudl Klaus Wyborny La Monte Young Peter Young Gilberto Zorio Franz Erhard Walther Robert Watts William Wegman Lawrence Weiner John Wesley Tom Kovachevich Piotr Kowalski David Lamelas Barry Le Va Jean LeGac Alfred Leslie Richard Long Ingeborg Lüscher Inge Mahn Brice Marden Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Blinky Palermo Panamarenko Giulio Paolini A.R. Penck Giuseppe Penone Vettor Pisani Sigmar Polke Stephen Posen Markus Raetz Arnulf Rainer Gerhard Richter Klaus Rinke Dorothea Rockburne Peter Roehr Allen Ruppersberg Edward Ruscha Reiner Ruthenbeck Ulrich Ruckriem Robert Ryman John Salt Salvo Lucas Samaras Paul Sarkisian Jean-Frederic Schnyder Ben Schonzeit Werner Schroeter HA Schult Rudolf Schwarzkogler Fritz Schwegler Richard Serra Paul Sharits Allan Shields Katharina Sieverding Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Klaus Staeck Paul Staiger Jorge Stever Robert Strubin Paul Thek Malcolm Morley Ed Moses Bruce Nauman Hermann Nitsch Claes Oldenburg Agnes Martin Etienne-Martin Richard McLean David Medalla Fernando Melani Bernd and Hilla Becher K. P. Brehmer Christo & Jeanne-Claude Seth Siegelaub Harald Szeemann Jean-Christophe Ammann Bob Projansky Arnold Bode documenta / Kassel Art Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Arte Povera Conceptual Art Feminism Theory / Essay Architecture / Interior Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Dada Curatorial Film / Video Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Painting Photography Pop Art Sculpture / Installation Counterculture Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic

Environments and Happenings
Edited by Adrian Henri

1974, English
Softcover, 216 pages, 21 x 16 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Thames and Hudson / London

$30.00 - Out of stock

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Environments and Happenings by painter and poet Adrian Henri, published by Thames & Hudson in 1974, forms one of the first mainstream book surveys to trace the phenomenon of environmental/performative/total living artworks that became prevalent in the 1960s/70s. This historical study is profusely illustrated in colour and b/w with many international works from Fluxus to Zero to Dolle Mina to Nouveau Réalisme to Provo to Gutai to The Situationists and much more. Includes the works of Joseph Beuys, Clarence Schmidt, Ray Johnson, Öyvind Fahlström, Paul Thek, Yves Klein, Allan Kaprow, Hans Haacke, Kurt Schwitters, Marcel Duchamp, Guerllia Art Action Group, Daniel Spoerri, Wolf Vostell, Gustav Metzger, Peter Kuttner, Jackson Pollock, Alison Knowles, Dick Higgins, Robert Morris, Situationist International, Ferdinand Kriwet, Klaus Rinke, Duane Hanson, A-Yo, Meret Oppenheim, Space Structure Workshop, Ferdinand Cheval, Dolle Mina (Mad Mina), Robert Smithson, Jeff Nuttall, Stefan Wewerka, Christo, Dennis Oppenheim, Vladimir Tatlin, Provo, Barry Flanagan, Andy Warhol, Meredith Monk, Atsuko Tanaka, Kazuo Shiraga, Ed Keinholz, Yayoi Kusama, Piero Gilardi, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Jean Tinguely, Claes Oldenburg, Les Levine, James Rosenquist, Red Grooms, Tom Wesselmann, George Segal, Eduardo Paolozzi, and many many more. Includes reproductions of performance scripts, partial chronology, etc.

Very Good copy, previous owner name to front endpaper.

File under: Guerilla Art Action Group Joseph Beuys Clarence Schmidt Ray Johnson Öyvind Fahlström Paul Thek Yves Klein Hans Haacke Kurt Schwitters Marcel Duchamp Guerllia Art Action Group Daniel Spoerri Wolf Vostell Gustav Metzger Peter Kuttner Jackson Pollock Alison Knowles Dick Higgins Robert Morris Situationist International Ferdinand Kriwet Klaus Rinke Duane Hanson A-Yo Meret Oppenheim Space Structure Workshop Ferdinand Cheval Dolle Mina (Mad Mina) Robert Smithson Jeff Nuttall Stefan Wewerka Christo Dennis Oppenheim Vladimir Tatlin Provo Barry Flanagan Andy Warhol Meredith Monk Atsuko Tanaka Kazuo Shiraga Ed Keinholz Yayoi Kusama Piero Gilardi Niki de Saint-Phalle Jean Tinguely Claes Oldenburg Les Levine James Rosenquist Red Grooms Tom Wesselmann George Segal Eduardo Paolozzi Allan Kaprow Adrian Henri Thames and Hudson / London Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Arte Povera Conceptual Art Art Dada Counterculture Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Painting Pop Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Surrealism Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Sound / Music

Sigmar Polke
History of Everything

2004, English
Softcover (staple bound), 16 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by The Tate Gallery / London

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Exhibition guide published on the occasion of Sigmar Polke, History of Everything, at the Tate London in 2004. Introduces the German artist Sigmar Polke (1941—2010) and surveys the major themes/developments in his work, illustrated throughout with examples in b/w and colour. Includes full schedule of exhibition events, etc.

Good copy with wear and spine pinching, rubbing to cover from another small book.

File under: Sigmar Polke The Tate Gallery / London Painting Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Art Pop Art

Tadanori Yokoo
1971-1974

1974, Japanese
Softcover (French-fold cover), 80 pages, 21 x 28.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Mainichi Shinbun / Japan

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Rarely seen gorgeous book on the poster work of the legendary Japanese graphic artist Tadanori Yokoo at the height of his powers. Printed and published by Mainichi Shinbun in Japan in 1974, this volume carries very little text and is made up almost 100% with beautiful full-page reproductions of Yokoo's major poster works from the years 1971-1974, in which his iconic photo-montage and print-making had a distinct psychedelic, erotic and esoteric spirit rendered in his vivid pop colours. One of the nicest books on this period of his work, designed by Yokoo.

Tadanori Yokoo (b. 1936) is one of Japan's most successful and internationally recognized graphic designers and artists, who began working with painting in 1966. In parallel, Yokoo’s early screenprints experimented with collage and illustration, combining found photographs with the influence of traditional Japanese ukiyo-e and pop art’s flat vibrant colours and overtly sexual and grotesque content, often reflecting on the rapid changes and Westernisation of Japan post-war society. His interests in mysticism and esotericism, deepened by travels to India, influenced his iconic posters with eclectic psychedelic imagery sharing the aesthetics of the underground counterculture he was associated with. In Tokyo, Yokoo worked as a stage designer for avant-garde theatre, collaborating extensively with Shūji Terayama and his experimental theater group Tenjō Sajiki. By the late 60s he had already achieved international recognition and in the early 1970s MoMA mounted a solo exhibition of his graphic work. His famous designs for The Beatles, Miles Davis, Carlos Santana and collaborations with friend and iconic Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake are renowned the world over. He also starred as a protagonist in Nagisa Oshima's film Diary of a Shinjuku Thief in 1968.

Very Good copy with foxing to first blank page. Light corner bump to top spine.

File under: Tadanori Yokoo Mainichi Shinbun / Japan Art Graphic Design / Typography Out-of-print / Rare Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Pop Art Performance / Dance / Theater Drugs / Psychedelia

The Complete Tadanori Yokoo

1971, Japanese / English
Softcover (in slipcase w. obi strip), 22 x 15.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kodansha Int / Tokyo

$500.00 - Out of stock

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The very first printing of the legendary Complete Tadanori Yokoo book, designed by Yokoo and published in Japan in 1971. Still the quintessential Yokoo book, anyone who sees it knows immediately — boldly designed and beautifully produced with gorgeous colour, thick paper stock, fold-outs, and absolutely comprehensive in capturing the early masterpieces of one of Japan's leading artists of the 1960s. All housed in the original iconic illustrated slipcase with publisher's obi-strip present. 360 total works recorded, alongside 230 photographs — all the posters and other works showcasing his psychedelic, erotic, esoteric and politically charged photo-montage and vivid pop print-making, with documentation of the exhibitions, events, and underground scene Yokoo was central to in the 1960s, captioned throughout with texts by Akiyuki Nosaka and Yokoo himself. A treasure for any fan. A most complete copy.

Tadanori Yokoo (b. 1936) is one of Japan's most successful and internationally recognized graphic designers and artists, who began working with painting in 1966. In parallel, Yokoo’s early screenprints experimented with collage and illustration, combining found photographs with the influence of traditional Japanese ukiyo-e and pop art’s flat vibrant colours and overtly sexual and grotesque content, often reflecting on the rapid changes and Westernisation of Japan post-war society. His interests in mysticism and esotericism, deepened by travels to India, influenced his iconic posters with eclectic psychedelic imagery sharing the aesthetics of the underground counterculture he was associated with. In Tokyo, Yokoo worked as a stage designer for avant-garde theatre, collaborating extensively with Shūji Terayama and his experimental theater group Tenjō Sajiki. By the late 60s he had already achieved international recognition and in the early 1970s MoMA mounted a solo exhibition of his graphic work. His famous designs for The Beatles, Miles Davis, Carlos Santana and collaborations with friend and iconic Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake are renowned the world over. He also starred as a protagonist in Nagisa Oshima's film Diary of a Shinjuku Thief in 1968.

Very Good—Near Fine copy preserved with very minimal wear, light tanning to obi/spine, VG slipcase.

File under: Tadanori Yokoo Akiyuki Nosaka Kodansha Int / Tokyo Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Counterculture Performance / Dance / Theater Drugs / Psychedelia Pop Art Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Art Drawing Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Graphic Design / Typography Painting Posters / Prints

Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
Shuji Terayama, Tadanori Yokoo, Yasuhiro Yoshioka

1967, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 310 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Haga Bookstore / Japan

$250.00 - In stock -

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Rare and iconic book, Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (1967) is a collaboration between legendary Japanese underground theater and film director Shuji Terayama, graphic designer Tadanori Yokoo and photographer/cinematographer Yasuhiro Yoshioka. As a precursor to Terayama's first audacious feature-length film of the same title, from 1971, this beautiful softcover book is filled with collages, photographs, graphics, drawings and texts (in Japanese), housed in an elaborate dust-jacket (with amazing Beatles homage lipstick collage on verso) typical of the bold and vibrant pop design style of Yokoo, establishes Terayama as a multi-talented avant-garde poet, dramatist, writer, film director, editor and photographer, and one of the central figures of the runaway movement in 1960s Japan. In the same year as this book was published, Terayama (in collaboration with Tadanori Yokoo and others) formed the Tenjo Sajiki, a major phenomenon on the Japanese Angura ("underground") theater scene, the prolific group was known for their stage works marked by experimentalism, folklore influences, social provocation, grotesque eroticism and the flamboyant fantasy characteristic of Terayama's oeuvre. An amazing and rare early example of their published collaborative work, wrapped in one of Yokoo's most iconic graphic works.

Shūji Terayama (1935 — 1983) was a Japanese avant-garde poet, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer. His works range from radio drama, experimental television, underground (Angura) theatre, countercultural essays, to Japanese New Wave and "expanded" cinema. Terayama is considered one of the most productive and provocative creative artists to come out of Japan, with a wide-reaching influence on many artists from the 1970s onward.

Good copy with Good dust jacket. General tanning and foxing, with edge wear and surface wear to jacket.

File under: Shūji Terayama Tenjo Sajiki Shuji Terayama Tadanori Yokoo Haga Bookstore / Japan Out-of-print / Rare Art Performance / Dance / Theater Japanese Photography Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Graphic Design / Typography Counterculture Eros Film / Video Pop Art Protest / Revolt Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque

Live in Your Head : When Attitudes Become Form : Works, Concepts, Processes, Situations, Information.

1969 / 2006, English / French / German / Italian
Softcover binder (w. spring-loaded plate), 170 pages, 31.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Kunsthalle Bern / Bern

$290.00 - Out of stock

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One of the great art documents of the 20th century, "Live in Your Head : When Attitudes Become Form", curated by Harald Szeemann at the Kunsthalle Bern in Switzerland, March 22 - April 27, 1969. This is the impeccably re-produced facsimile edition of the exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with an exhibition honouring the legacy of Szeemann in 2006, published by the Kunsthalle Bern, the producers of the original. Strictly limited edition and immediately out-of-print, this most faithful reprint, with the unique die-cut alphabetically tabbed index bound with hardware-fittings, has become as collectible as the 1969 edition.

Sponsored by the Philip Morris tobacco company, this was an important, extensive and primary exhibition dedicated to the amalgam of Pop, Minimal and Conceptual Art in Europe and the United States. The catalogue itself is designed and produced by Szeemann, and printed in Switzerland by Stämpfli & Cie in Bern. Alongside those of Seth Siegelaub, Szeemann's now historical catalogues changed the way exhibition publishing performed. Presented as a indexical binder (spring-bound with a metal plate) forming an index of alphabetical artist pages and accompanying texts. Includes a biography, bibliography, illustrations and portrait for each artist.

Texts by Harald Szeemann, Scott Burton, Grégoire Müller and Tommaso Trini.

Artists include Carl Andre, Giovanni Anselmo, Richard Artschwager, Thomas Bang, Jared Bark, Robert Barry, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Marinus Boezem, Bill Bollinger, Michael Buthe, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Paul Cotton, Alighiero Boetti, Hanne Darboven, Jan Dibbets, Ger Van Elk, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Hans Haacke, Michael Heizer, Douglas Huebler, Paolo Icaro, Alain Jacquet, Neil Jenney, Jo Ann Kaplan, Eva Hesse, Edward Kienholz, Yves Klein, Joseph Kosuth, Jannis Kounellis, Gary B. Kuehn, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Roelof Louw, Bruce McLean, Walter De Maria, David Medalla, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, Paul Pechter, Panamarenko, Michelangelo Pisteletto, Emilio Prini, Markus Raetz, Allen Ruppersberg, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Robert Ryman, Alan Saret, Sarkis, Jean-Frédéric Schnyder, Fred Sandback, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Keith Sonnier, Richard Tuttle, Frank Viner, Erhard Walther, Lawrence Weiner, William Wegman, William Wiley and Gilberto Zorio.

Texts in English, French, German and Italian.

As New with only light creasing to the overhanging edges of the cover edges, otherwise a Fine copy.

File under: Carl Andre Giovanni Anselmo Richard Artschwager Thomas Bang Jared Bark Robert Barry Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Marinus Boezem Bill Bollinger Michael Buthe Pier Paolo Calzolari Paul Cotton Alighiero Boetti Hanne Darboven Jan Dibbets Ger Van Elk Rafael Ferrer Barry Flanagan Hans Haacke Michael Heizer Douglas Huebler Paolo Icaro Alain Jacquet Neil Jenney Jo Ann Kaplan Eva Hesse Edward Kienholz Yves Klein Joseph Kosuth Jannis Kounellis Gary B. Kuehn Sol LeWitt Richard Long Roelof Louw Bruce McLean Walter De Maria David Medalla Mario Merz Robert Morris Bruce Nauman Claes Oldenburg Dennis Oppenheim Paul Pechter Panamarenko Michelangelo Pisteletto Emilio Prini Markus Raetz Allen Ruppersberg Reiner Ruthenbeck Robert Ryman Alan Saret Sarkis Jean-Frédéric Schnyder Fred Sandback Richard Serra Robert Smithson Keith Sonnier Richard Tuttle Frank Viner Erhard Walther Lawrence Weiner William Wegman William Wiley Gilberto Zorio Harald Szeemann Scott Burton Tommaso Trini Gregoire Müller Kunsthalle Bern / Bern Conceptual Art Arte Povera Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Art Sculpture / Installation Minimal Art Pop Art Photography Film / Video

1970-1980 : Dal Design Al Post-Design
Edited by Isa Vercelloni

1980, Italian
Hardcover, 50 pages, 32 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Casa Vogue / Milan Edizioni Condé Nast / Milan

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First edition, published in 1980 by Edizioni Condé Nast / Casa Vogue (Milan), of this little known furniture book, edited by Casa Vogue editor Isa Vercelloni, who brought us the 1985 classic “Styles of Living: The Best of Casa Vogue”.

This fantastic hardcover book, the first in Casa Vogue's book library, is dedicated entirely to showcasing furniture by (amongst many other deisgners) Aldo Rossi, Gaetano Pesce, Andrea Branzi, Ettore Sottsass, Afra and Tobia Scarpa, Toshiyuki Kita, Achille Castiglioni, Alchimia, Paolo Nava, Antonio Citterio, Enzo Mari, Alessandro Mendini, B&B Italia, Cassina, Flos, Poltronova, Vico Magistretti, Artemide, Stilnovo, Mario Bellini, Josef Hoffman, Studio Driade, Poltronova, Carlo Scarpa, Gae Aulenti, Angelo Mangiarotti, Eileen Grey, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Gerrit T. Rietveld, Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand, , Pierre Jeanneret, C&B Italia, Mario Ceroli, Cini Boeri, Arflex, Zanotta, Superstudio, Archizoom, Knoll, Meret Oppenheim, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Jonathan de Pas, De. Pas + D'urbino + Lomazzi, Donato d'Urbino, Paolo Lomazzi, Gufram, Giani Ruffi, Piero Gilardi, Joe Columbo, Sergio Asti, Hans Hollein...

Scarce, wonderfully compiled Italian title of 1970's-1980's furniture design and its influences.

Very Good copy.

File under: Achille Castiglioni Alessandro Mendini Angelo Mangiarotti Antonio Citterio Archizoom Arflex Artemide Carlo Scarpa Cassina Charles Rennie Mackintosh Charlotte Perriand Cini Boeri De Pas Donato d'Urbino D'Urbino Eileen Gray Enzo Mari Gae Aulenti Gerrit Rietveld Giani Ruffi Gufram Hans Hollein Joe Colombo Jonathan de Pas Josef Hoffmann Le Corbusier Mario Bellini Mario Ceroli Max Ernst Meret Oppenheim Paolo Lomazzi Paolo Nava Piero Gilardi Pierre Jeanneret Poltronova René Magritte Sergio Asti Stilnovo Studio 65 Studio Driade Superstudio Toshiyuki Kita Vico Magistretti Zanotta B&B Italia Isa Vercelloni Casa Vogue / Milan Edizioni Condé Nast / Milan Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Furniture Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Ceramics / Glass Pop Art Arte Povera Sculpture / Installation

Styles of Living
The Best of Casa Vogue

1985, English
Hardcover (w. dustjacket), 224 pages, 30 x 22.6 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Rizzoli / New York

$200.00 - Out of stock

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First edition, published by Rizzoli in 1985, of this classic interior design book, "Styles of Living: The Best of Casa Vogue"

Making appearances in these rooms: Gae Aulenti, Man Ray, Enzo Mari, Carlo Scarpa, Pablo Picasso, Josef Hoffman, Cinzia Ruggeri, Max Ernst, Wols, Matteo Thun, Ettore Sottsass, Le Corbusier, Salvador Dali, René Magritte, Lucio Fontana, Eileen Grey, Daniel Buren, Gaetano Pesce, Charles Eames, Verner Panton, Massimo Vignelli, Andy Warhol, Frank Lloyd Wright, Antoni Tàpies, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Alver Aalto.....

"Ever since the end of the Second World War, Italian style, design and decoration have maintained an unprecedented predominance in the Western World. It was in the early 1950s that a great surge of decorative talent welled up in Italy, and this resulted in the 'Italian look' in clothes and in homes - a new standard of chic inventiveness.

The Italian view of interior design has been most enterprisingly expressed in the magazine Casa Vogue, which was founded in 1968 and has consistently been one of the most admired publications of Condé Nast International.

This book, garnered from the many issues of Casa Vogue, has been written and produced under the guidance of Isa Vercellonim who has been its editor ever since its inception. The choice of picture-stories is intended to reflect the unusual and distinctive diversity of the magazine - ranging from traditional decoration to the more advance examples of minimal design, most the most significant of contemporary buildings to the spectacular reconstructions and reconversions of old palazzi and coachhouses, from the 'post modern' to the 'anti-modern' and any other 'moderns' that may have been advocated recently. Italian trends naturally provide the main focus, but Casa Vogue also includes developments in the United States, France, Switzerland - indeed, wherever unusual and meaningful designs are being created."

Very good copy in Good dust-jacket, protected under mylar wrap.

File under: Andy Warhol Antoni Tàpies Carlo Scarpa Charles Eames Cinzia Ruggeri Daniel Buren Eileen Gray Enzo Mari Ettore Sottsass Frank Lloyd Wright Gae Aulenti Gaetano Pesce Josef Hoffmann Le Corbusier Lucio Fontana Man Ray Massimo Vignelli Matteo Thun Max Ernst Michelangelo Pistoletto Pablo Picasso René Magritte Salvador Dalí Verner Panton Wols Alvar Aalto Rizzoli / New York Architecture / Interior Furniture Out-of-print / Rare Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Pop Art Ceramics / Glass Arte Povera

Les infamies photographiques de Sigmar Polke

2019, English / French
Softcover, 228 pages, 24 x 17 cm
Ed. of 600,
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by LE BAL Books / Paris

$240.00 - Out of stock

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"A picture is and is not a key, a key is chemistry, no key is chemistry, chemistry is poison, poison is risk, risk is poison, risk is painting, painting is hiding, in hiding new colors emerge, new colors are new dangers, dangers are desires, desires are keys"—Extract from Malva Alcea (Sigmar's Mallow) by Harald Szeemann

Published by LE BAL on the occasion of the exhibition and now out-of-print, this publication displays a collection of never-seen-before photographs which all belong to the artist's son, Georg Polke. Designed by Roger Willems, the book highlights the jubilant and almost cheeky relationship that the artist had with the photographic medium during a key creative period : 1970-1986. Page by page, the many photographic genres and experiments usual to Polke's practice reveal themselves, creating a body of work partly family album, partly road movie. The book also insists on the important place the chemical and photographic experiments held in the painter's practice.

Produced in a small edition of 600 copies, the book also contains a rare 1985 interview of the artist by Bice Curiger as well as texts by Bernard Marcadé, Bice Curiger, Fritz Emslander and Harald Szeemann. A key publication on the photographic practice of Polke and a treasure trove archive of rare images!

As New copy.

File under: Sigmar Polke Roger Willems Bernard Marcadé Bice Curiger Fritz Emslander Harald Szeemann LE BAL Books / Paris Pop Art Photography Out-of-print / Rare Art Painting Conceptual Art

Tadanori Yokoo
PUSH

1972, Japanese
Softcover (w. french-fold dust jacket and printed cardboard slipcase w. original obistrip), 246 pages, 13 x 19.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kodansha Int / Tokyo

$160.00 - Out of stock

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The very scarce and unique PUSH by Tadanori Yokoo, published in 1972 and featuring photography by Kishin Shinoyama and Daido Moriyama.

After a car accident in 1972 Tadanori Yokoo decided to take a two year hiatus from work at the height of his fame. PUSH is a visually inventive dairy of this period beautifully designed by Yokoo himself with colour nude girl photographs and b/w self-portraits of the artist by none other than Kishin Shinoyama, Daido Moriyama and Tadashi Krahashi. A gorgeous and curious production with humorous over-printing and incredible design, housed in original printed slipcase with the original publisher's obi-strip.

Tadanori Yokoo (b. 1936) is one of Japan's most successful and internationally recognized graphic designers and artists, who began working with painting in 1966. In parallel, Yokoo’s early screenprints experimented with collage and illustration, combining found photographs with the influence of traditional Japanese ukiyo-e and pop art’s flat vibrant colours and overtly sexual and grotesque content, often reflecting on the rapid changes and Westernisation of Japan post-war society. His interests in mysticism and esotericism, deepened by travels to India, influenced his iconic posters with eclectic psychedelic imagery sharing the aesthetics of the underground counterculture he was associated with. In Tokyo, Yokoo worked as a stage designer for avant-garde theatre, collaborating extensively with Shūji Terayama and his experimental theater group Tenjō Sajiki. By the late 60s he had already achieved international recognition and in the early 1970s MoMA mounted a solo exhibition of his graphic work. His famous designs for The Beatles, Miles Davis, Carlos Santana and collaborations with friend and iconic Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake are renowned the world over. He also starred as a protagonist in Nagisa Oshima's film Diary of a Shinjuku Thief in 1968.

Very Good—Near Fine copy, with only light wear and age. Very well preserved and complete.

File under: Daido Moriyama Kishin Shinoyama Tadashi Krahashi Tadanori Yokoo Tadanori Yokoo Kodansha Int / Tokyo Art Graphic Design / Typography Out-of-print / Rare Photography Drugs / Psychedelia Japanese Photography Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Pop Art Performance / Dance / Theater

Ray Johnson

1999, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 224 pages, 27.8 x 21.2 cm
1st US Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Flammarion / Paris

$100.00 - In stock -

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First edition of “Correspondences”, the now out-of-print major catalogue / monograph of the fabulous artist Ray Johnson.

In 1995, the resolutely reclusive Ray Johnson reemerged into the spotlight when he died in a mysterious and spectacular way, leading to the discovery of thousands of works of art in his house. Drawing upon this vast trove, Donna De Salvo, the Wexner Center's Curator at Large, has organized Ray Johnson: Correspondences, the first comprehensive exhibition to be mounted (with the complete cooperation of the artist's estate).

Like Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Jasper Johns, and later Andy Warhol and Jim Rosenquist, Johnson combined the signs and symbols of contemporary culture with the lessons of abstraction to develop a new lexicon of forms. A pioneer in the use of 'found' images and techniques of mechanical reproduction, Johnson created in 1955 what may have been the first informal happening.

Johnson first created 'mail art' in the fifties. These were part collage, part manifesto, part parody; he often instructed recipients to 'add to', 'return to', or 'send to', spawning an interactive art form, a continuous happening, that pre-figured electronic mail. Johnson was the nerve center of this pre-digital netscape that spread around the nation and, eventually, the world, which continues to flourish today.

By the eighties, Johnson was a legend in the artistic community. Ray Johnson: correspondences, offers the first opportunity for in-depth examination of the work of an artist who reflected and dissected many of the aesthetic, cultural, and theoretical preoccupations of the last forty years; a figure whose impact and influence will finally be made known.

Essays by the exhibition’s curator, Donna De Salvo, Mason Klein, Wendy Steiner, Jonathan Weinberg, Sharla Sava, Lucy Lippard, William S. Wilson, and Henry Martin, all profusely illustrated throughout with Johnson's artworks.

Co-published by Flammarion and the Wexner Center in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Wexner Center September 16 – December 31, 2000.

As New.

File under: Ray Johnson Donna De Salvo Mason Klein Wendy Steiner Jonathan Weinberg Sharla Sava Lucy Lippard William S. Wilson Henry Martin Flammarion / Paris Art Dada Pop Art Fluxus Out-of-print / Rare Drawing Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art

Newspaper
Steve Lawrence, Peter Hujar, Andrew Ullrick

2023, English
Softcover, 416 pages
Published by Primary Information / New York

$84.00 - Out of stock

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Published by Steve Lawrence and edited with Peter Hujar and Andrew Ullrick, Newspaper was published in New York City between 1968 and 1971.

Newspaper was a wordless, picture-only periodical that ran for fourteen issues and featured the disparate practices of over forty artists. With an editorial focus on placing appropriated material alongside new works, the periodical sought to codify a visual language of high and low culture that represented contemporary society in the late 1960s. While largely overlooked in art-historical discourse, Newspaper showcased many of the most revered artists working in the United States at the time, as well as an emerging coterie of queer artists.

The mid to late sixties was a flourishing period for artists experimenting with new media formats such as books, records, and magazines to create or distribute their work. Newspaper was one of the first artist-published tabloids of its era, preceding Andy Warhol’s Interview and Les Levine’s Culture Hero, both of which debuted in 1969. However, in contrast to other tabloids, Newspaper focused strictly on images.

At a time when photography was not being exhibited regularly in galleries, Newspaper provided an alternative exhibition space for the medium and some of the era’s greatest photographers. The publication’s large size and unbound format encouraged readers to take it apart and hang its pages, which was how Newspaper was installed at the Museum of Modern Art’s influential Information show in 1970.

This is not to say that Newspaper only existed within the narrow confines of the art world, far from it. It lived within (and shared contributors with) a robust network of underground and queer periodicals like The New York Review of Sex, Rags, and Gay Power, among others. Yet, unlike many of these tabloids, Newspaper has largely disappeared from the discourse around underground magazines, queer publishing, and artists’ periodicals.

All fourteen issues of Newspaper are compiled in this volume for the first time.

Featured artists include: Diane Arbus, Art Workers Coalition, Richard Avedon, Clyde Baines, Sheyla Baykal, Peter Beard, Brigid Berlin, Richard Bernstein, Ann Douglas, Paul Fisher, Maurice Hogenboom, Peter Hujar, Scott Hyde, Christo and Jeanne-Claude Javacheff, Ray Johnson, Edwin Klein, Yayoi Kusama, Gerald Laing, Dorothea Lange, Steve Lawrence, Jeff Lew, Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Mercado, Duane Michals, Jack Mitchell, Forrest “Frosty” Myers, Billy Name, Stephen Paley, Warner Pearson, Jurgen Warner Piepke, Charles Pratt, Joseph Raffael, Mel Ramos, Lilo Raymond, Ruspoli-Rodriguez, Lucas Samaras, Alan Saret, Bill Schwedler, Leni Sinclair, Norman Snyder, Elizabeth Staal, Stanley Stellar, Terry Stevenson, Paul Thek, Andrew Ullrick, Andy Warhol, William T. Wiley, and May Wilson.

Editor: Marcelo Gabriel Yáñez
Managing Editor: James Hoff
Designer: Rick Myers
Copy editor: Allison Dubinsky

File under: Diane Arbus Art Workers Coalition Richard Avedon Clyde Baines Sheyla Baykal Peter Beard Brigid Berlin Richard Bernstein Ann Douglas Paul Fisher Maurice Hogenboom Peter Hujar Scott Hyde Christo and Jeanne-Claude Javacheff Ray Johnson Edwin Klein Yayoi Kusama Gerald Laing Dorothea Lange Steve Lawrence Jeff Lew Roy Lichtenstein Frank Mercado Duane Michals Jack Mitchell Forrest “Frosty” Myers Billy Name Stephen Paley Warner Pearson Jurgen Warner Piepke Charles Pratt Joseph Raffael Mel Ramos Lilo Raymond Ruspoli-Rodriguez Lucas Samaras Alan Saret Bill Schwedler Leni Sinclair Norman Snyder Elizabeth Staal Stanley Stellar Terry Stevenson Paul Thek Andrew Ullrick Andy Warhol William T. Wiley May Wilson Rick Myers Primary Information / New York Art Photography Conceptual Art Pop Art LGBTQ+ Counterculture

Öyvind Fahlström on the Air - Manipulating the world
by Teddy Hultberg

1999, English / Swedish
Hardcover (in illustrated slipcase w. dust jacket + 2 CD), 337 pages, 29 x 16 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Sveriges Radios Förlag / Stockholm

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Under the motto: "Manipulate the world - take care of the world", Fahlström set up a variety of meeting-places in which participants were invited to take part in an interdiciplinary game of purposeful discovery. He introduced elements of popular culture into his work early on and made substantial contributions to a critical assessment of the "medialisation" of art. In this, the most extensive book about Öyvind Fahlström to date, Teddy Hultberg charts the artist´s predominant lines of creative development and shows how his cross-genre endeavours were based on a few central ideas: character forms, signs, games and life materials.

The present study focuses on two innovative and extraordinary compositions for radio: "Birds in Sweden" (1963) and "The Holy Torsten Nilsson" (1966). These works can be heard on the two accompanying CD records and are also included here in written form. Some unique and hitherto unpublished visual and textual material, the result of several years of research by Teddy Hultberg, is also included in the book.

Now long out-of-print, this first 1999 edition (in bi-lingual English / Swedish) comes housed in illustrated, die-cut slipcase, with hardcovers and illustrated dust jacket. All Very Good—Fine in condition.

File under: Öyvind Fahlström Teddy Hultberg Sveriges Radios Förlag / Stockholm Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Objects / Ephemera / A/V Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Pop Art

NICOLA L.
Life and Art

2023, English
Hardcover (with pillowed plastic), 304 pages, 29 x 22 cm
Published by Apartamento / Barcelona

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‘If I write it all, search and find it all, it’s maybe to try to understand what happened, everything is ultimately bound, art and life, children, loves, errors, joys, hopes’.—Nicola L.

Nicola L.: Life and Art is the first comprehensive monograph about the pioneering artist Nicola L. (1932-2018), whose wide-ranging work—impossible to categorise—challenged ideas about identity, gender, and the body long before such questions were de rigueur. Born in Morocco to French parents, she spent her formative years in Paris attending the Beaux-Arts, only to burn most of her paintings in 1965 and move towards formats that engaged people more directly: wall-mounted canvases that could be worn as costumes, sculptures that doubled as seats, coats designed for many people to wear at once, or films about radical political figures. Far from settling in a time and place, she travelled the world, finding physical and artistic homes in the free-spirited community of Ibiza, in countercultural New York, and even, briefly, in a Lebanese jail.

The art Nicola made stemmed from the life she lived—there were no boundaries between the two. This book follows the same logic, intertwining both throughout its 304 pages: on one hand, a comprehensive catalogue raisonné of her artworks; on the other, a fanzine of Nicola’s never-seen-before memoirs, in which she narrates her incredible life, punctuated with anecdotes involving Jean-Paul Sartre, Salvador Dalí, Yves Klein, Niki de Saint Phalle, Caetano Veloso, Andy Warhol, Bad Brains, and Carolee Schneemann. Her writing is complemented by the personal stories of those who knew her and the commentary of those who have connected with her work: Christophe and David Lanzenberg (her sons), Gary Indiana (writer and longtime friend), Marta Minujín (artist and longtime friend), Pierre Restany (late critic and mentor), H.R. (Bad Brains frontman and film subject), Alexandra Cunningham Cameron, Flavia Frigeri, Ruba Katrib, and Myriam Ben Salah (curators), among many others. Edited by Hannah Martin and Omar Sosa, and made with the support of Alison Jacques, London and the Nicola L. Collection and Archive, this book brings together original images of the work, archival photographs, essays, interviews, and journals—in sum, all the pieces of Nicola’s puzzle.

File under: Nicola L Gary Indiana Pierre Restany Marta Minujín H.R. (Bad Brains) Alexandra Cunningham Cameron Flavia Frigeri Ruba Katrib Myriam Ben Salah Hannah Martin Omar Sosa Apartamento / Barcelona Sculpture / Installation Art Furniture Performance / Dance / Theater Architecture / Interior Pop Art

UnAustralian Art: Ten Essays on Transnational Art History
by Rex Butler & ADS Donaldson

2023, English
Hardcover, 275 pages, 24.8 x 17.2 cm
Published by Power Publications / Sydney

$40.00 - Out of stock

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UnAustralian Art: Ten Essays on Transnational Art History proposes a radical rethinking of Australian art. Rather than identifying a national sensibility, Rex Butler and ADS Donaldson demonstrate that Australian art and artists have always been engaged in struggles and creative exchanges with the rest of the world. Examining Australian art as much from the outside in as the inside out, Butler and Donaldson’s methods open Australian art history to an encyclopaedic multitude of hitherto excluded stories.

“This long-awaited volume is a true polemic. Its controversial arguments are squarely aimed at the practices of art museums, art historians and curators. The globalising of art in the current era requires such audacious rewriting of cultural exchanges.”—Ann Stephen, Senior Curator, Art, University of Sydney

“This book raises an important matter for artists subjected to a myopic nationalism in the arts. By proposing an ‘unAustralian art’, Butler and Donaldson show what and who is revealed with a hybrid concept of culture.”—Juan Davila

“Though its temporal and geographic scope is limited to twentieth-century Australian art, UnAustralian Art offers a striking and original model of art historiography for the global contemporary. Butler and Donaldson both critique national art history and present a new account of art on the continent now called ‘Australia’. Against ‘isolationist’ histories of national art, this is a story of connections: between artists, curators, galleries, and museums, between cities and countries. There is a political point at stake here. Reclaiming the term ‘unAustralian’ from the conservative former prime minister John Howard, who popularised it as a pejorative in the 1990s, Butler and Donaldson seek to open, not seal, Australia’s highly politicised borders.”—Helen Hughes, Monash University

File under: Rex Butler ADS Donaldson Power Publications / Sydney Art Australian Art Theory / Essay Sociology / Politics Conceptual Art Painting Pop Art Sculpture / Installation Minimal Art

Ends of Painting: Art in the 1960s and 1970s
Edited by David Homewood and Paris Lettau

2023, English
Softcover, 346 pages, 24.8 x 17.2 cm
Published by Power Publications / Sydney

$40.00 - Out of stock

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Contemporary art begins where painting ends, or so goes one of recent art history's most dominant narratives. This book is a post-mortem of the supposed death of painting in the period following World War II. In eleven essays by a global array of leading scholars, Ends of Painting offers a counter-history, showing how the practice and discourse of painting remained integral to art throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

Written by art historians from Australia, Asia, Europe and North America, each chapter captures a renewed critical approach to topics as diverse as conceptualism and anachronism, photography and autobiography, theatre and politics, nationalism and consumerism, race and modernism.

The book reveals a vast constellation in which painting’s ends are also beginnings—from Warhol’s Cow Wallpaper at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York to Naoyoshi Hikosaka’s act of pouring latex over tatami mats on his bedroom floor in Tokyo; from the first canvas boards by Aboriginal artists at Papunya in Australia’s Western Desert to the Collective Actions Group’s documentation of people holding up arrangements of coloured envelopes in snowfields outside Moscow.

These unlikely correspondences between times and places sustain this book’s return to the medium, revealing how history is brushed by painting, and painting by history.

File under: Andy Warhol Daan Van Golden Naoyoshi Hikosaka David Homewood Paris Lettau Power Publications / Sydney Painting Australian Art Art Theory / Essay Pop Art Conceptual Art

Keiichi Tanaami
Blow Up : Poster and Graphic Works 1963-1974

2001, English / Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket and obi-strip), 27 x 20 cm
Published by Amus Arts Press / Japan

$120.00 - Out of stock

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First hardcover edition of this essential single vibrant monograph capturing the psychedelic graphic work (spanning 1963-1974) by Japanese artist, Keiichi Tanaami. Concert posters, protest posters, comic strips, films, animations, record jackets, pop advertising, and much more, all vividly illustrated throughout, with commentary by the artist in English.

Keiichi Tanaami is one of the leading pop artists of postwar Japan, and has been active as a multi-genre artist since the 1960s as a graphic designer, illustrator, video artist and fine artist.

Very Good copy with Very Good dust jacket and original printer's obi-strip.

File under: Keiichi Tanaami Amus Arts Press / Japan Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Pop Art Out-of-print / Rare